Kronenberg mayor's office

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The mayor's office in Kronenberg was a mayor's office in the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg in the 19th century and in the Rhine province from 1822 onwards . According to official documents from 1836 it was an "urban collective municipality with an unseparated municipal budget". Today the area of ​​the mayor's office (with the exception of smaller peripheral areas, which went to Remscheid in 1929 and the growth due to the area of ​​the old Elberfeld Hahn and Hipkendahler Rotte ) corresponds to the urban district and district of Cronenberg of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Background and story

The roots of the mayor's office lie in the medieval parish of Cronenberg in the Bergisches Amt Elberfeld . The Duchy of Berg last belonged to King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria due to inheritance . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the duchy to Napoleon Bonaparte in exchange for the principality of Ansbach . He transferred the duchy to his brother-in-law Joachim Murat , who on April 24, 1806, united it together with the (remaining) right bank of the Duchy of Kleve and the counties of Mark , Dortmund , Limburg , the principality of Munster and other territories to form the Grand Duchy of Berg .

Soon after the takeover, the French administration in the Grand Duchy began to introduce new and modern administrative structures based on the French model. By August 3, 1806, this municipal reform replaced and unified the old Bergisch offices and rulers. It provided for the creation of departments , arrondissements , cantons and municipalities (called Mairies from the end of 1808) and broke with the old nobility prerogatives in local government. On November 14, 1808, this process was completed after a reorganization of the first structuring from 1806, the Altbergic honors were often retained and were assigned to the respective Mairies of a canton as rural communities. During this time, the municipality or Mairie Kronenberg was created as part of the canton of Ronsdorf in the Elberfeld arrondissement (part of the Rhine department ). In addition to the village of Cronenberg, there were seven squads .

In 1813 the French withdrew from the Grand Duchy after the defeat in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig and from the end of 1813 it fell under the provisional administration of Prussia in the Generalgouvernement of Berg , which was finally awarded it by the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. With the formation of the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg in 1816, the existing administrative structures were largely retained and, while maintaining the French borders, converted into Prussian administrative districts , districts , mayor's offices and municipalities , which often lasted into the 20th century. The Mairie Kronenberg became the mayor's office of Kronenberg.

The Kronenberg mayor's office was initially assigned to the Solingen district of the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province. In 1815/16, 4,375 people lived in the mayor's district.

On October 30, 1819, the Kronenberg mayor's office was reclassified to the Elberfeld district of the Prussian Rhine province (founded in 1822 as the successor to the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province). In July 1827 Cronenberg was raised to the status of the cities of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament and was thus granted de facto city status. Together with seven other cities, it provided a representative.

According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the mayor's office had a population of 5,729 in 1832, divided into 362 Catholic and 5,367 Protestant parishioners. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised three churches, four public buildings, 660 residential houses, 290 factories and mills and 376 agricultural buildings.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 8,358 (7,702 Protestant, 641 Catholic and 15 other Christian faiths) for the mayor of Cronenberg, who lived in 80 places with a total of 1,126 houses and 1,710 households. The area of ​​the mayor's office (2,027 ha ) was divided into 629 ha of arable land, 157 ha of meadows and 1,093 ha of forest.

During the municipal reforms of 1929, the city of Cronenberg was assigned to the newly founded city of Wuppertal under regional taxes to Remscheid .

Breakdown

In 1832 the mayor's office was subdivided into districts (following the Rotten) as follows:

To the mayor belonged 1888 additionally listed on the 1832 nor the residential places and towns: Berghauser height , Boller Hammer , Bremer Hamer , castle Mallet , angel figurines , Friedrich Hammer , Heath , hope , Hülsberg , Kaltenbach Hammer , Kremer Hammer , Lechmigskotten , Lenz house , Morsbacherberg , New cottas , Oberkamp , Upper Mösch Born , Plätzershammer , Rauenhaus , Rennbaum , Unter Kohlfurth and Wahlert .

literature

  • J. Holtmanns et al. (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the mayor's office Kronenberg. Remscheid 1877.
  • Peter Bockemühl among others: Cronenberg - history and individuality. o. O., o. J. (Wuppertal 1954). (2nd, extended new edition. Wuppertal 2009)
  • Charles Schmidt, Das Großherzogtum Berg 1806 - 1813. A study on French supremacy in Germany under Napoleon I, Neutstadt / Aisch 1999 (for general background)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Düsseldorf Government District , 1836. P. 34 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  3. ↑ Landschaftsverband Rheinland: Portal Rheinische Geschichte ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  4. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1819, p. 18
  5. ↑ Cronenberger Heimat- und Bürgererverein (ed.), Cronenberg 1828 - 1977, Wuppertal 1977, p. 13. S. a. G. Werner, W. Köllmann, H. Schürmann, Heimatchronik der Stadt Wuppertal, Wuppertal undated, p. 114
  6. ↑ a b Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.